Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager – Food Manufacturing

This position is responsible for the safe maintenance, repair or replacement of all manufacturing Plant equipment and systems, to ensure maximum production quality and efficiency.

• Supervises all plant maintenance personnel and coordinates efforts to ensure all personnel are safely, effectively and correctly performing all maintenance activities.
• Initiates, implements and manages the plant maintenance program based on best practices in the food manufacturing industry, with a strong emphasis on planning, scheduling and preventive maintenance.
• Monitors the use and inventories of all spare parts and supplies needed for the proper maintenance and emergency repair of all plant wide equipment and systems.
• Initiates, verifies and monitors the parts ordering conducted by the entire maintenance department.
• Establishes, updates and maintains the computerized maintenance management system for tracking and performing PM’s, tracking spare parts consumption, maintenance performance monitoring and reporting for customer audits.
• Communicate regularly with production supervisors both individually and as a group to ensure good two-way communication concerning maintenance issues. And to ensure all maintenance issues are acted upon quickly and effectively.
• Generate updates and maintain all operating, service and training manuals required by the maintenance department.
• Ensure all maintenance personnel are trained periodically on personal safety, food safety and any newly revised operating procedures.
• Monitors, regulates and sets parameters and conditions which all production equipment will be allowed to run to ensure maximum performance and reliability.
• Reviews the operation of plant equipment and systems constantly, minimizing unplanned downtime, anticipate problems, plan future repairs and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Initiates and carries out projects that improve efficiency, reduce operating cost or improves equipment reliability with or without project managers assistance.
• Tracks, analyzes and improves key maintenance parameters such as overtime utilization, parts costs, and all department asset utilization and expenditures to help satisfy budgetary constraints.
• Ensures all city, state, federal and local regulations pertaining to the maintenance department personnel and their activities are adhered to at all times.
• Ensures all completed wok orders are returned to the originator in a timely manner and copies are filed and stored for later review as needed.
• Communicates directly with the production department heads to coordinate all maintenance activities that will effect production threw put or any repair that may increase the risk of having a food safety issue.
• Responsible to coordinate the maintenance department’s efforts to respond, investigate and resolve all equipment related product contamination issues quickly and permanently.
• Communicates directly with the QC department to ensure that the maintenance department is effectively participating in and implementing all QA policies and procedures.
• Communicates directly with the Sanitation department to ensure the maintenance department is effectively participating in and following sanitation procedures to ensure plant cleanliness.
• Directly responsible for the planning, assigning, scheduling, directing work, appraising performance, rewarding, disciplining, addressing complaints, resolving issues and terminating of all maintenance employees.

• Degree preferred
• Minimum 5+ years of Maintenance Management experience
• Experience in the food industry is a plus